MarkyJoe1990 Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 (edited) Due to popular request, I've decided to revitalize Ragefest as an ongoing series rather than a contest. Submissions Submission 1: A Hobbit's Tale by Lifestorm - , Submission 2: Tower Defense by Jay007 - FAQ Q: What is Ragefest? A: Before now, it was a contest series I started to encourage productivity in the Fire Emblem Hacking Community. The goal was to make a creative and funny, but sadistically hard chapter in one of the GBA Fire Emblems (Or FEXP) to submit to me. Once sent, I would record myself playing the submission, blind, with commentary, allowing viewers to witness my rage and amusement organically. This became the most popular series on my youtube channel. After a while, I started to feel the contest was getting stagnant, and my enthusiasm for it was waning, so I announced the postponement of Ragefest 4 and ax'd the series from then on. However, because so many people wanted me to bring it back, I decided to grant them their wish, and thus Ragefest continues as an ongoing series. Q: Can I submit a hack to this series? A: Yes you may. But it must fit the following requirements. - The chapter must have a brand new custom map, and custom events - It must be reasonably beatable without the help of a guide, grinding, Arena abuse, or excessive luck - For Fog of War maps, you must provide a unit with thief vision (A unit who can see far in the fog) It doesn't matter if it's an actual hack, or a Fire Emblem game made with FEXP or something else. So long as it's Fire Emblem in some way, it's fair game. It's also worth noting that I'm not obligated to play your submission if I don't want to. However, unless you're completely incompetent at being funny, creative, or sadistic, the chances of me denying your submission are slim. Q: I want to learn Fire Emblem Hacking! A: That's not a question, but here. Q: What do you look for in submissions? A: For me, the ideal submission is concise, funny, incredibly dickish, challenging, and has a story that motivates me to continue playing despite the horrors I undergo. Q: Have any submissions met your standards? A: Most people would probably agree that is the realization of my ideal Ragefest Submission. However, while it is probably overall the best submission ever submitted to the contest, there are a few other submissions that come pretty close to it's glory, and even do certain aspects better.Examples: - The most challenging submission in the contest is probably . It's designed with no RNG, and the entire level is tailored to revolve around this idea. On top of that, the enemies are very carefully placed, requiring precise actions in order to avoid losing anyone.- The Funniest submission is probably . It's notorious for the "Manphia" mug, which made me laugh for nearly an entire minute.- The most sadistic submission... is debatable. Matthew's Nightmare made me extremely paranoid because it was riddled with traps EVERYWHERE, but Marc's Special Day made me feel angry, distressed, and exhausted nearly the entire way through. Q: What are your favorite submissions? A: Matthew's Nightmare Rondo of Madness F. EXE Q: Any advice on how NOT to design a Ragefest submission? A: - Watch . This submission gets nothing right. Besides the beginning, none of the enemies will move unless you get into their range, allowing you to easily bait & switch your way through the entire chapter (Which is tedious). It's dialogue is embarrassingly wishy washy. There's hardly any jokes, and the few that are there aren't funny. Worst of all, you have to Arena Abuse to beat the boss.- has maps that are awful looking, tedious, and devoid of challenge. However, the reason why it won Ragefest 3 is because it was just so god damn hilarious. It's self aware of it's own terribleness, and uses that as the foundation for most of it's jokes. Not only that, but it's characters are clearly defined (They have goals, personalities, and they're funny), it's depiction of my cynical, whiney nature is quite spot on, and it plays up it's own stupidity to maximum comedic effect. It was clearly designed to extract as many reactions out of me as possible. Let's not forget. Manphia. Just. Manphia. on the other hand, attempts to do the same "self aware bad hack" schtick, and fails miserably. The fourth wall is abused recklessly, the characters are paper thin, and it uses a slew of references that completely flew over my head. Also, ALL CAPS and internet speak aren't funny. If you're gonna make a "self aware bad hack", do it the FELover3 way, not the way this hack did it.Q: Why are you such an asshole in your videos? A: Some of the submissions I get are... well... terrible. There's nothing that upsets me quite as much as feeling like the creator just half assed a submission together just to get attention, or see something they made get played. Other times the creator hypes their submission up to be fantastic, and then when I play it and realize it's not as good as they made it out to be and... well... hype backlash. I get angry and annoyed at the creator's arrogance. Sometimes it's my fault though. I either go into a submission while in a bad mood, or I played the wrong, inferior version of the submission, and end up ragging on it undeservingly. Or I'm just a douche in general. Plenty of people can confirm that last one. Q: Could you go easy on my submission? I'm a bit sensitive. A: I'm not very good at restraining what comes out of my mouth, so while I'll try to go easy on your submission, I can't guarantee that I'll make it through the whole thing without saying at least one mean thing. Q: I want to send you hate mail. A: markyjoe1990@gmail.com Edited January 14, 2013 by MarkyJoe1990 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandragon Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Wait what? Felover's hack got first place? Upon watching the first submission, I'm getting flashbacks of one of the submissions from the first Ragefest. The one in which you had to get Trent to commentate it with you. It's name escapes me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkyJoe1990 Posted January 1, 2013 Author Share Posted January 1, 2013 Wait what? Felover's hack got first place?I haven't officially announced it, but if you look at the votes on the , FELover3's submission has an enormous string of votes.Upon watching the first submission, I'm getting flashbacks of one of the submissions from the first Ragefest. The one in which you had to get Trent to commentate it with you. It's name escapes me... by 24fitz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandragon Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Ah yes, Morph's Last Stand. I actually decided to play that one...it took every ounce of strength I had to not through my laptop out a window. If you ever need a co-commentator to help keep your sanity...yeah...people are here...like me...i'm not lonely... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT075 Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 nobody remembers my hack :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renwar Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 (edited) nobody remembers my hack :( The one where the map shifted every turn and there was a fog of war maze? I remember thinking as I watched that video that it would probably be one of the only times I'd save-state, at least. >_> That was probably one of the best commentaries, between the two of ya. - For Fog of War maps, you must provide a unit with thief vision (A unit who can see far in the fog) Though, I think Markyjoe1990 remembered the maze for this one. :P Edited January 2, 2013 by Renwar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT075 Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 clearly the best solution is to rig all 1% crits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkyJoe1990 Posted January 2, 2013 Author Share Posted January 2, 2013 (edited) The one where the map shifted every turn and there was a fog of war maze? I remember thinking as I watched that video that it would probably be one of the only times I'd save-state, at least. >_> That was probably one of the best commentaries, between the two of ya. It's the only commentary we've ever done together, so... yeah. Though, I think Markyjoe1990 remembered the maze for this one. :P I think it's a mix of Camtech's submission and ESPECIALLY Hithere1's that convinced me that I had to set some limitations to fog of war. Having to deal with only one range of vision has got to be one of the most horrible designs I've ever seen, and it makes submissions virtually unplayable. I think a lot of people give Ragefest 1 a bit too much credit. In terms of submissions, it was probably the worst on-average Ragefest to date, with Matthew's Nightmare being the diamond in the rough. I feel the real reason why Ragefest 1 is more appreciated than the later ones is because my commentary was a lot more enthusiastic, especially compared to Ragefest 3 where I was just too worn out by the length of the submissions to really do them justice. Maybe someday, I should revisit the ragefests and give each of them a sort of retrospective review. Edited January 2, 2013 by MarkyJoe1990 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT075 Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 the quality was in-general so much lower just because people really didn't care enough to make full-length submissions (aside from mn) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DH_Ninja Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 I might have to participate in this. :3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkyJoe1990 Posted January 14, 2013 Author Share Posted January 14, 2013 We got a new submission. Unfortunately, it's not good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandragon Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 We got a new submission. Unfortunately, it's not good. This wasn't much of a tower defense but rather just a bunch of enemies to tear through. In fact, was there even a consequence of just letting them come to you? Was there a throne in which you had to defend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bladehero22 Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 This wasn't much of a tower defense but rather just a bunch of enemies to tear through. In fact, was there even a consequence of just letting them come to you? Was there a throne in which you had to defend? Maybe there was but we don't know that since you're pretty much tearing through all the enemies before they even come close to it. Also, this submission kind of forced Marc to wait out all the spawning enemies until they reach the max unit limit and that's just not fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eCut Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Please try to not necropost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Red Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Q: I want to send you hate mail.A: markyjoe1990@gmail.com finally I was looking for this everywhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkyJoe1990 Posted November 10, 2013 Author Share Posted November 10, 2013 I finally got a new submission that has effort put into it. And by submission, I mean ACTUAL game that isn't a ROM hack or FEXP. Made by PwnageKirby, the sadistic lass that brought us F. EXE from Ragefest 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkyJoe1990 Posted February 4, 2014 Author Share Posted February 4, 2014 (edited) I recently got an e-mail...My response? Edited February 4, 2014 by MarkyJoe1990 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NobodiePichu Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 and the challange begins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Kamon Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 50 turns of Defend the Castle? D: H-How can that NOT be tedious? Oh well. The guy says he worked on this for one whole year and that he has gathered data from your older videos, so I'll try to have some faith. Can't wait to see this! And remember, Marky: no save slaves. ... Oh, whoops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agro Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 So this hack should be the Cell Saga of the Ragefest, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkyJoe1990 Posted February 4, 2014 Author Share Posted February 4, 2014 (edited) I just played the submission. This has got to be one of the most dull things I've ever played. 50 turns of defense mission, eh? More like 50 turns of bloated map (it's 45x34 tiles), reinforcements (both enemy and ally), and getting bullshitted with snipers with longbows that ignore defense, heroes that deal too much damage, and... ugh... I've only attempted it twice, but just the thought of a third attempt makes me feel depressed and bored. I'm not accepting this submission. Edited February 4, 2014 by MarkyJoe1990 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelman Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 I just played the submission. This has got to be one of the most dull things I've ever played. 50 turns of defense mission, eh? More like 50 turns of bloated map (it's 45x34 tiles), reinforcements (both enemy and ally), and getting bullshitted with snipers with longbows that ignore defense, heroes that deal too much damage, and... ugh... I've only attempted it twice, but just the thought of a third attempt makes me feel depressed and bored. I'm not accepting this submission. Ouch. That must have been a waste of time... But will you record you playing through it? I would like to see how bad it is xD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkyJoe1990 Posted February 4, 2014 Author Share Posted February 4, 2014 Ouch. That must have been a waste of time... But will you record you playing through it? I would like to see how bad it is xD I have about an hour's worth of footage showing my first attempt. It needs cutting down, and even then, I asked the author if he still wants me to upload the footage knowing that I found it dull. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNight48 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Just to put my own 2 cents in I am completely starting over on my ragefest submission. As mark says, my submission is pretty much trash despite the effort that went into it and pretty much went down a different path then I originally wanted it to be in my head. Some of my ideas that had a function to limit what the player could do to break the chapter could be broken and I did not figure out the fix until I already sent it in. Other things like the longbows were there so you couldn't break the chapter with the general I gave the player. (In my test plays, that's how I broke my own hack with so decided to do re-stats and weapon fixes). I am brushing up on my level design skills and will come back and finish that hack into the rage inducing hack it deserves to be one day. For now its chapter making practices, playing other FE hacks while doing all kinds of troll research, and re-playing FE games to get examples. I want to win and I don't care how many of my hacks I have to trash and restart to create the perfect one to do it. That said if anybody wants to see the original bad one, pm me and will send it to you. constructive criticism is welcomed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klokinator Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 I hope you remake it in fexna when that comes out. The RNG methods and a bunch of other things would make a tower-defense style game much more viable provided you implement it properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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